• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

Mr Mayor, there is a difference between delivering the diversity agenda and just looking as though you are delivering the diversity agenda. Can I urge you, Mr Mayor, to reject Stonewall's invitation to enter into the Stonewall Index which, nominally, was supposed to be about ensuring the employment rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) community when, actually, Stonewall has proved itself to be motivated for party political reasons, as recently we saw at the Conservative Party Conference. I would urge you not to take up its invitation to enter into the Stonewall Index.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

Mr Mayor, you will know that the good folk of Barnet and Camden are avid readers of the Daily Telegraph and, of course, particularly look forward to your weekly article. You will recall the excellent piece that you wrote on 21 September 2009 on the subject of cuts - yours and my favourite subject - where the agenda, I think, has moved on considerably since we last spoke on the matter. In that piece you made a rather powerful point about saving front line services; very important. You also made the point about the legion of officials whose responsibilities have...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

OK. Given that there is this huge funding gap, let us look ahead to the upgrade of the Piccadilly line. If you do not think Tube Lines has costed the work correctly, why do you not instruct London Underground to go to the market and put the work out to tender?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

Mr Mayor, I was going to ask if you would accept some clarity that the first meeting that Dee Doocey attended was under Len Duvall's chairmanship, the Labour Member, and perhaps her bitterness is exacerbated because she had a puncture that day, did you not? In the car park. You did, my dear, but it was under the previous administration.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

Good. Superb. That is the answer I was looking for, I think, because it does allow me to challenge the suggestion --

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

John Biggs (AM): With respect to the Conservatives, this man wants to run our country for God's sake; he should be able to answer any question we throw at him.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

Lovely. The reason I put this question down was because I had seen your Time for Action update and I have got some questions on it. When we did the scrutiny into your original document last year we were promised that, by this stage, we should have had action plans for each stream of work that were fully costed. I am just wondering where they are because we have not seen them yet.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

I would you like to focus on transport please.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

Mr Mayor, last night I was at a meeting of local constituents and a couple of them complained about the situation that is now developing in Hornchurch on a Saturday night where the black cab rank continually overflows and the cabs queued in behind it block up the rest of the traffic. Can you talk to the Public Carriage Office to get it to amend its plans to actually provide more ranks in outer London so that taxis are available to take people home when they need them and they are not blocking up the traffic and hampering other road...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 October 2009

But this is actually a specialist unit. I do not know if you have visited or seen any of the work. The fact is all the police officers in that unit - they are all police officers first of all - they are all HGV drivers, they are all qualified transport managers and, also, they have got health and safety delegated powers. Now they are very unusual because they can actually stop a lorry, assess the problems with it and then force the company to fix it. If you get rid of them you actually get rid of a very...